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(11) EP 0 271 759 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
22.03.1989 Bulletin 1989/12

(43) Date of publication A2:
22.06.1988 Bulletin 1988/25

(21) Application number: 87117728.3

(22) Date of filing: 01.12.1987
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)4: B65B 61/24
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE CH DE ES FR GB IT LI NL SE

(30) Priority: 17.12.1986 US 942850

(71) Applicant: INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY
Purchase New York 10577 (US)

(72) Inventors:
  • Konzal, Daryl
    Colgate Wisconsin 53017 (US)
  • Salnajs, Gunars
    Milwaukee Wisconsin 53210 (US)

(74) Representative: Reichel, Wolfgang, Dipl.-Ing. et al
Reichel und Reichel Parkstrasse 13
60322 Frankfurt
60322 Frankfurt (DE)


(56) References cited: : 
   
       


    (54) Improved high capacity continuous package seam and tab folding and tacking apparatus and method


    (57) Improved method and apparatus for continuously folding, heating, and tacking to the sides of the package panel the excess packaging material created by forming the package from a web (20) of polyfoil material. The method and apparatus is particularly useful in form, fill, and seal machines (10) that form a plurality of aseptic sealed packages (30) from a continuously advancing tube (22) filled with a product (32), and incorporate a plurality of package receiving means (488, 493) mounted on a continuously advancing structure (301) that forms sealed product filled packages into rectangular finished bricks (31) by squaring the package, heating the excess material, folding the excess material agaist the package until it cools to thereby tack it.







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